Tuition

As state support has dropped over the past three decades, Michigan’s 15 public universities have compensated by raising tuition, fees and room and board.

The system is seeking $397 million in increased funding for the 2012-13 school year to prevent the hike.

About 1,000 students rallied and marched from the UC Berkeley campus to a downtown Bank of America branch as part of a statewide day of action to bring attention to higher-education cuts they say were caused by banks.

A new proposal by President Mark G. Yudof would seek a $411-million hike in state funding for the 2012-13 academic year while adding courses and hiring professors.

The University of California will not raise tuition this school year even if state budget triggers are pulled next month and the system loses another $100 million, UC President Mark Yudof said today.

The wave of anger at banks that has swept the country with the recent Occupy movement is coming to California college campuses next week.

It's bad enough; the president's loan initiative will make it that much worse

First the dot.coms popped, then mortgages. Are student loans and higher education the next bubble, the latest investment craze inflating on borrowed money and misplaced faith it can never go bad?

The University of Charleston will slash tuition rates by 22 percent next year in an effort to bolster enrollment.

Students who graduated from college in 2010 with student loans owed an average of $25,250, up 5 percent from the previous year, according to a report scheduled for release Thursday.